One evening in the mid-1960s, while dining with the publisher of a fashion magazine, she indulged a pet theme: Why did women's magazines offer advice on beauty and clothing but not on vocal quality?
In the two sets of occasional essays that he wrote in the seventeen-fifties — "The Rambler" and "The Idler" — a pet theme is that government, good and ill, is at a remove from actual life.
Also keep in mind that it is a bit dangerous to invest on specific "pet" themes of new administrations.
In keeping with his pet themes of age, redemption, and loyalty, Eastwood cast himself as Bond, reimagining the character as a widower resigned to failing health and limited responsibility.
We therefore categorically reject any policy of quotas or positive discrimination, those pet themes of political correctness.
Organized by Kristina Van Dyke, another doctoral candidate in African art at the university, the show reverses a pet exhibition theme of recent years: rather than asking how context affects the meaning of traditional African objects, Ms. Van Dyke explores ways in which objects shape their environment.
Once again, Buckley returns to his pet theme: the vanity and perfidy of the capital's ruling elite.
Mr Abe himself got embroiled in a pointless row with neighbours and America over a pet historical theme, claiming that wartime Japan did not enslave the women of conquered nations in military-run brothels.
Her other pet theme is the cosy political elite, removed from the concerns of ordinary folk.
His new book, "After the Fall", stands as a summary of many pet themes: that the European Union has a weak economy with too lavish a welfare state and little capacity for reform, a shrinking population and, worst of all, too many Muslim immigrants.Mr Laqueur makes many telling points.
